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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoThis bookclub thing is great. I just read a book that I like a lot. But it also irritated me, so I want to bitch a bit. The book is Janet Malcolm’s Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. (229 pages although the pages are really short, it’s really more like 50 regular pages, which is a reason in itself to read it.)
I love Janet…[Read more]
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This sounds fascinating! How do you think them being a lesbian couple informed the way they acted as a Jewish couple? What do you mean? I don’t really know much about them, I guess, but this book sounds like it has everything I love: lesbians, Jews, artists! I may have to read it.
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I don’t know how it would have made a difference, it just seems like it would. That’s what I wanted Malcolm to figure out for me, ha. I would imagine that it would partly depend on what it meant to be a lesbian at that time/place, which I don’t know much about, except for the seemingly very relevant point that the Nazis were doing bad shit to…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agohello bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1 et al.
i just finished reading julian barnes’ collection of short stories, ‘pulse’ (212 pages). i read it partially on the train, in bed and just now at my desk. overall i would rate it as merely ‘ok’, there were a lot of words and the writing was pretty loose for short stories. there was a lot of…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoHello, I’m new, I just joined ASS specifically for this group.
So my first book is Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock. It’s a short 176 pages and I read the whole thing whilst I was in the bath. It’s a YA story about two girls who fall in love and the obstacles of their love (parents, Willa’s ex, religon, etc.).…[Read more]
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that’s a good one. love it.
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i read this one! i think i felt the same way you felt. according to the YA books post, i felt — ” Cute! At first was a bit hard to follow — A LOT of unnecessary characters — but once you get your handle on who matters — it’s a pretty sweet girl-on-girl love story. The cast sprawl continues but is easily rectified by a few moments of pure poetry.…[Read more]
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i found myself really disappointed in that book when i read it. it was compared to Annie on my Mind, but i felt like it didn’t really have anywhere near the same impact, and i sometimes found the narration kind of… trite? like, i wanted to care, but i couldn’t quite.
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It’s very interesting to hear so many thoughts on it – I didn’t know if it was that well known a book. I only got it as one of those ‘Recommended For You’ books from Amazon.
@msamanda – I know exactly what you mean however Annie On Your Mind, despite being considered a classic now, didn’t really blow me away either. I think it’s a fine read,…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoSo! I’m excited for this. I recently finished Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (378 pages). It is amazing – but the best thing about it is simultaneously the most difficult thing, which is the prose. The sentences are long and rambling, kind of between speech and stream of consciousness (it’s occasionally frustrating..). The same story, of the rise…[Read more]
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I’m super interested to hear what you have to say about Huckleberry Finn from your British (I assume you’re British from your profile…) perspective! Even though I’ve (shamefully) never read it myself.
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So, I only just saw this, which makes this the most ridiculously late reply ever. But! In case you see this reply…. Hm, I guess this might sound a little strange but in a way it reminded me of Dickens insofar as Dickens’ London is very much his own creation – like a kind of hyperbolic version of real London. To me, Twain’s depiction of the South…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoThis is amazing, I can’t wait to see what everyone is reading. I’ve got summer classes starting on Monday, but I always bring a book to class to read when the professor is late!
I just finished ‘Harpo Speaks’ by Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber. (How does that fancy linking work? I’m computer illiterate for real. Look at my avatar for…[Read more]
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